Worry

In these uncertain times it is so easy to worry. I have always said that we need not worry because the Lord will look after us, everything will be fine and it always has. We have never gone hungry and we have always had a roof over our heads. However lately I have gotten worried spurred on by layoffs, plant closures as well as doom and gloom stories, blogs and articles and when that happened I was relying on myself and my own power and that just led to more and more worry. How would we be able to make ends meet if my hubby loses his job? How would we feed ourselves?

You know it finally hit home for me what I have been doing. I lost sight of the fact that we can do nothing in our own power. God has it all in control. He already knew this would happen and he already knows the outcome. Romans 8:28 says "And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are called according to his purpose."

Instead of feeding fear I should have been turning to God's Word.

These scriptures came to mind today.....

Matthew 6:25-34 (King James Version)

Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?

Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?

Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?

And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:

And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?

Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?

(For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.

But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

How true!

God is in control - Praise the Lord!

Happy Tuesday!
Blessings,
Liisa